In an article for The American Interest, Strauss Distinguished Scholar Eugene Gholz argues against the current and costly U.S. operating policies in the Gulf.

American military presence in the Persian Gulf since the 1970s had been designed to counter threats to world oil interest while diminishing dangers in the region. In response, the U.S. has adopted a strategy of large military presence and close monarchical ties in the region. In an article for The American Interest, Strauss Distinguished Scholar Eugene Gholz argues against the current and costly U.S. operating policies in the Gulf, and he argues that an over-the-horizon approach would preserve and protect U.S. oil interest in the region, stabilize current leadership and improve conceptualization of America, among a host of other non-oil related regional concerns.